Man, the snake-oil salesmen of the 1800s had nothing on today’s inequality campaigners. Turns out that inequality’s to blame for New Zealand’s low organ donation rates. Really?
Here’s Eileen Goodwin at the ODT.
An “individualist new-right” attitude that holds sway in New Zealand is holding back organ donation rates, a University of Otago biomedical ethics authority says.
Prof Grant Gillett was contacted for comment on a Ministry of Health consultation process that seeks to increase New Zealand’s low rate of organ donation.
Prof Gillett supports a shift to an opt-off organ donation system that would involve families in the decision-making process.
He said the political ideology of the Ministry of Health and the Government hindered efforts to foster a different view of organ donation.
“The ministry’s got quite an individualist new-right sort of agenda.
“I think it’s shared by the Government at large; I think that’s the reason why we…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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